Porsche: Start of a new Formula E era 🎥
GENERATION THREE Porsche will start the ninth season of the Formula E World Championship with the new 99X Electric Gen3 at the Mexico City E-Prix on January 14. The inaugural race in Mexico City marks a turning point.
The new third-generation cars being used for the first time are a significant step toward even greater efficiency and sustainability for the electric racing series. The Porsche Formula E team TAG Heuer returns to the site of its greatest success at the start of the new season. Last year, it celebrated a magnificent double victory on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Grand Prix circuit.
Two teams start with four cars
Pascal Wehrlein, who took pole position and the first Formula E victory for Porsche at the time, is also competing this time in the Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 with start number 94. His new teammate António Félix da Costa, the Formula E champion of the 2019/2020 season, will contest his first race for Porsche in the 99X Electric Gen3 with start number 13.
Four Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 cars will be on the grid at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in 2023. Two of the electric race cars developed in Weissach will be used by the TAG Heuer Porsche works team, and Avalanche Andretti intends to use two others to fight for victories and titles as the first Formula E customer team. The regular drivers of the team founded by U.S. motorsport icon Michael Andretti are Jake Dennis and André Lotterer.
First appearance of the new Gen3 cars
The new Gen3 cars, which will make their debut at the Mexico City E-Prix, mark the beginning of a new era for Formula E. The Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 and its competitors are the fastest, lightest, most powerful and efficient electric race cars ever built.
Florian Modlinger, Overall Project Manager Formula E (center gallery): "As the eleven Formula E teams all start the new season on more or less the same technical level, we expect exciting and hard-fought races. With these cars, the cards will be reshuffled in the world championship."
Safety Car comes with striking design
With the all-electric Taycan Turbo S, Porsche is again providing the official safety car this season (gallery left). The Stuttgart-based company is thus underlining the importance of Formula E for Porsche Motorsport. The car's striking design picks up on the colors of all eleven teams as well as the FIA and Formula E. It thus symbolizes the joint commitment to the all-electric future of motorsport as well as social values such as diversity and community.
